Wandering Thoughts archives

2009-12-17:	The good and bad of SQL
2009-12-09:	My views on inheritance versus interface
2009-12-05:	Overcoming the drawbacks of preforking `accept()` servers
2009-11-06:	A shell script thing that I have learned the hard way
2009-11-02:	Are security bugs always code bugs?
2009-10-30:	Understanding hash length extension attacks
2009-10-15:	One complexity of buffered IO on Unix
2009-10-11:	Why security bugs aren't bugs
2009-10-09:	A fun bug I once ran across
2009-10-05:	The problem with security bugs is that they aren't bugs
2009-09-18:	Are you sure it's a C string?
2009-09-03:	Programming blindness and security
2009-08-16:	Testing versus extensibility
2009-08-12:	Undo is sometimes not good enough
2009-07-15:	A Bourne shell gotcha with `( ... )` command grouping
2009-07-13:	Shell scripts should not use absolute paths for programs
2009-07-04:	A side note on the cost of operations
2009-06-07:	It's important to get the real costs right
2009-06-03:	The costs of development versus the costs of operation
2009-05-30:	The program energy efficiency optimist's view
2009-05-29:	The cost of program energy efficiency
2009-05-28:	Encapsulation may be in the eye of the beholder
2009-04-27:	One of my TDD weaknesses: mock objects for complex objects
2009-04-19:	Sometimes you don't want behavior with your data
2009-03-30:	There are three entry states for feed readers
2009-03-23:	How libraries should handle internal warning messages
2009-03-16:	Complex data structures and the two sorts of languages
2009-02-24:	A core principle of error and warning messages
2009-02-17:	Design versus construction
2009-01-25:	Thinking about what you do with undo
2009-01-24:	Towards a better undo

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